QUAGLIENI, Antonio. b. Italy; served with the Brothers Giulium, circus proprietors in Italy; had an equestrian company in France; came to England with his talented equestrian family in 1856; a circus director in Cardiff 1862; naturalised in England 20 Feb. 1866; returned to Brescia, Italy with a fortune 1870; his wife Amalia Gasperini Quaglieni d. 22 Dec. 1882 aged 63; they had 10 children all in the profession, their son Luigi Quaglieni was manager of a circus when aged only seventeen. d. Brescia July 1892.
QUAIN, Sir John Richard (youngest son of Richard Quain of Ratheahy, co. Cork). b. Ratheahy 1816; educ. Göttingen and Univ. coll. London, fellow 1843; LL.B. London 1839, univ. law scholar; examiner in law to univ. of London several years, and member of the senate June 1860; practised as a special pleader 1841–51; barrister M.T. 30 May 1851, bencher Nov. 1866 to Jany. 1872; went northern circuit; Q.C. 23 July 1866; attorney general for county palatine of Durham 2 Sept. 1868 to Dec. 1871; judge of court of queen’s bench 5 Jany. 1872 to death; serjeant-at-law 9 Jany. 1872; knighted at Windsor castle 22 April 1872; his law library was presented to Univ. college, London by his brother Richard Quain 1876; author with Henry Holroyd of The new system of common law procedure 1852. d. 22A Cavendish sq. London 12 Sept. 1876. bur. Marylebone cemet. Finchley 18 Sept., marble bust of him placed in hall of Middle Temple Jany. 1888. A generation of judges. By their reporter (1886) 30–8; Law Times 23 Sept. 1876 p. 357.
QUAIN, Jones (half-brother of preceding). b. in the south of Ireland Nov. 1796; educ. Adair’s school Fermoy, and Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1814, B.A. 1816, M.B. 1820, M.D. 1833; anatomical teacher at Tyrrell’s school of medicine in Aldersgate st. London 1825; professor of general anatomy and physiology at Univ. coll. London 1831, resigned 1835; fellow of univ. of London 1836–58; translated and edited Louis Martinet’s Manual of pathology 1826, 4 ed. 1835; author of Elements of descriptive and practical anatomy for the use of students 1828, 10 ed. 3 vols. 1890; and with Erasmus Wilson of A series of anatomical plates in lithography with references and physiological comments, 2 vols. folio 1836–42. d. London 31 Jany. 1865. bur. Highgate cemet. Lancet 4 Feb. 1865 p. 136; Proc. of Med. and Chir. Soc. v 49–50 (1867).
QUAIN, Richard (brother of preceding). b. Fermoy July 1800; studied medicine in London and Paris; assistant to Richard Bennett, demonstrator of anatomy at London univ. 1828, senior demonstrator of anatomy there 1830, and professor of descriptive anatomy 1832–50; M.R.C.S. 18 Jany. 1828, F.R.C.S. 11 Dec. 1843, member of council 1854, president of the college 1868, Hunterian orator 1869; assistant surgeon to Univ. college hospital 1834, surgeon and special professor of clinical surgery 1848–66, consulting surgeon and emeritus professor of clinical surgery 1866; represented royal college of surgeons in general council of education 14 July 1870 to 14 June 1876; surgeon extraordinary to the queen 25 Nov. 1862 to death; F.R.S. 29 Feb. 1844; edited with W. Sharpey, Jones Quain’s Elements of anatomy, 5 ed. 2 vols. 1848; author of The anatomy of the arteries of the human body with lithographic drawings 1844; The diseases of the rectum 1854, 2 ed. 1855; Clinical lectures 1884. d. 32 Cavendish sq. London 15 Sept. 1887. bur. Finchley, portrait by George Richmond, R.A. in secretary’s office at royal college of surgeons and bust by Thomas Woolner in council room there. British medical journal ii 694 (1887); Lancet ii 687 (1887).
QUARTLEY, Frederick William. b. Bath 5 July 1808; studied wood engraving in Wales and Paris from 1824; went to New York 1852, helped to illustrate Picturesque America 1872, and Picturesque Europe 1875; painted Niagara falls, Buttermilk falls, and Catskill falls. d. New York 5 April 1874. Appleton’s American Biog. v 147 (1888).
Note.—His son Arthur Quartley, b. Paris 24 May 1839, a well known artist, d. New York 19 May 1886.
QUARTLY, Francis (3 son of James Quartly, cattle breeder 1720–93). bapt. 26 Oct. 1764; a famous breeder of North Devon cattle 1794–1836, when he sold the herd and retired; visited by Arthur Young 1796; presented by Bath and West of England soc. with a silver teapot for ploughing 60 acres of land with the double furrow plough in a new district 1801; received from his friends his full length portrait (standing by the side of the cow Cherry) 1850. d. Great Champson estate, Molland-Botreaux, North Devon 23 July 1856. Journal Royal Agricultural soc. of England (1850) 680–1; Jas. Sinclair’s Devon breed of cattle (1893) 42–61, 386–8.
QUAYLE, Mark Hildesley (only child of Mark Hildesley Quayle, clerk of the rolls of the Isle of Man 1770–1804). b. 4 July 1804; educ. at St. John’s coll. Camb.; called to Manx bar 1825; clerk of the rolls of the Isle of Man 1847 to death. d. Castletown, Isle of Man 19 March 1879. Law Times lxvi 456 (1879).
QUEENSBERRY, Archibald William Douglas, 7 Marquess of (only son of 6 marquess of Queensberry 1779–1856). b. Edinburgh 18 April 1818; educ. Eton; styled viscount Drumlanrig 1837–56; cornet 2 life guards 27 July 1838, sold out 19 Jany. 1844; M.P. Dumfriesshire 1847–56; comptroller of H.M.’s household 4 Jany. 1853 to July 1856; P.C. 7 Feb. 1853; colonel of Dumfriesshire militia; lord lieut. of Dumfriesshire 28 Aug. 1856 to death; succeeded as 7 marquess 19 Dec. 1856; a huntsman, shooter, pugilist, horse racer, deer stalker, and fisher; a frequent otter hunter; a good swimmer, crossed the Thames below Greenwich; kept hounds at Kinmount; backed horses extensively but was very unfortunate, bet £10,000 to £500 on Saunterer for the Goodwood cup July 1858 which he lost; shot himself accidentally at Kinmount, co. Dumfries 6 Aug. 1858. Sporting Times 13 June 1885 p. 2; Sporting Review xl 158–59 (1858); G.M. v 309 (1858); Times 10 Aug. 1858 p. 10, 16 Aug. p. 10.
QUEKETT, John Thomas (youngest son of Wm. Quekett 1767–1842, master of Langport gr. sch. 1790–1842). b. Langport, Somerset 11 Aug. 1815; educ. at King’s coll. London and London hospital; L.S.A. 1840; assistant conservator of Hunterian museum at royal college of surgeons Nov. 1843, conservator 1856 to death, demonstrator of minute anatomy 1844, professor of histology 1852 to death, his collections of 2,500 microscopic preparations were purchased by the college; secretary of the Microscopical society 1841–60, president 1860; F.L.S. 1857; F.R.S. 7 June 1860; the Quekett Microscopical club was established 1865; author of A practical treatise on the use of the microscope 1848, 3 ed. 1855; Descriptive and illustrated catalogue of the histological series in the museum of the royal college of surgeons, 2 vols. 1850–5; Lectures on histology, 2 vols. 1852–4; Catalogue of plants and invertebrates 1860; author with John Morris of Catalogue of the fossil organic remains of plants in the museum of the royal college of surgeons 1859. d. Pangbourne, Berkshire 20 Aug. 1861. Proc. of Royal Soc. xii 25–7 (1863); Proc. of Med. and Chir. Soc. iv 79 (1864); I.L.N. 31 Aug. 1861 p. 227 portrait.